Some she's bought, but many have been made for her by adoring fans and given to her as gifts. If I was associated with the Anne McCaffery estate I would want this product withdrawn from sale and reproduced in a new unabridged version and read by an empathetic performer with a good range of accents and acting skill.There are dragons all over Anne McCaffrey's house. In contrast the White Dragon book is excellent, well performed and unabridged, so I was devastated to follow up by listening to this drivel.

This ‘production’ of a great story by a great writer is about the worst I have ever come across on audible and it does not deserve to be in the brands stable of excellent work. When you then add the crass production the rushed and clipped narration and the awful accents I became so annoyed with the performance that I had to stop listening to it.

The characters become one dimensional and pathetic, and the story fails to excite at all. Whole paragraphs and their meaning are missing and overall it is an awful butchering of a brilliant story that comes across as half written and incomplete.

In fact it is a précis of the original and a bad précis at that. This is NOT a complete and unabridged version of the original book. Take my advice: save your money/credits and listen to something that is not produced and read by the team that created this monster. I wish there was a better version, as this is one of my favourites of the series, but I can't seem to find one. I really can't find the words to say how bad this is. There is no attempt to make a coherent whole out of the story, and instead huge chunks have just been left out, causing a confusing stop-start with new characters and scenes popping up at random. The narrator is truly awful, and can't pronounce so many common words correctly, not to mention her dismal attempt at an Irish accent. I was really looking forward to this one, but wow, what a let-down. Anne McCaffrey is one of my favourite authors, and I have read all her Pern books many times over the years. I really should have read the other reviews before being this.

Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey